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...generals when they refused to follow him: "Then I will continue the war alone." This savored of an ultimatum from the Nazi Party to those German generals who are known to have obstructed Adolf Hitler's plans for a westward Blitzkrieg last autumn. Promptly. Col. General Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander in Chief of the Armies, affirmed the military's allegiance in an article for the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi Party organ. Wrote he: "Whoever is National Socialist follows Frederician soldierdom...
Some observers read this as a fresh prediction of offensive action soon by the German Army. Others, reading further, construed the Brauchitsch piece as warning of a long war, for he continued...
Before long seven of Adolf Hitler's Cabinet members had arrived. Just out of an all-day conference with the Führer were Commander in Chief of the German Army General Walther von Brauchitsch; Commander of the Navy Grand Admiral Erich Raeder; Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the German Armed Forces, and, most important of all, Air Minister Hermann Göring. He sported a row of shining medals on his resplendent braided uniform, and was flanked by his trusted adjutant general of fliers and ja-man, Major General Karl Bodenschatz...
...Brauchitsch Cover...
...greatly appreciate TIME, but I do not like to see the picture of Brauchitsch on the cover of the issue dated Sept. 25th. A small picture in a section of TIME on crime would be more appropriate, after what the Germans have been doing in Poland. Abhor that which is evil and cleave to that which is good...